id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 20979,Serialize payload of model.FileField when using manage.py dumpdata,Jacob Rief,nobody,"I added a useful feature to **django-filer**, which allows to dump the payload of files together with their meta-data, when running {{{manage.py dumpdata > dumpfile.json}}} a dumpfile which later is reimported using {{{manage.py loaddata dumpfile.json}}} then also restores the payload of the file on disk, not just the meta-data. This simplifies backups and migrations of projects, since an administrator does not require additional tools such as zip or tar. It also makes backups less error prone, since everything is contained in one single file. In my opinion, such a feature would also be useful for {{{models.FileField}}} and {{{models.ImageField}}}. If this feature is considered useful enough, I would be pleased to implement it into the Django's main code. More details here: https://github.com/jrief/django-filer/blob/serialize-payload/docs/dump_payload.rst and here: https://github.com/stefanfoulis/django-filer/pull/335 ",New feature,closed,File uploads/storage,dev,Normal,wontfix,,,Unreviewed,0,0,0,0,0,0